RECLUZIA. 87 



Species of I a nth tint. 



communis, Lam. planospirata, Adams and 



exigua, Lam. Reeve. 



globosa, Swains. striolata, Adam* and Reevt 



incisa, Phil. turrita, V. d Hutch. 



pallida, Harvey. violacea, Bolt. 



Genus RECLUZIA, Petit. 



Shell translucent, thin, fragile, ovate or oblong, white, 

 covered with a brownish epidermis ; spire elevated, whorls 

 ventricose, the last longer than the spire ; aperture ovate, 

 wider anteriorly ; inner lip oblique, sinuous in the middle ; 

 outer lip acute, entire. 



E.v. B. Eollandiana, Petit, pi. GO, fig. 2. 



M. Jehenne, Captain in the French Navy, who discovered 

 this genus, has observed that the animals are pelagian, and 

 similar in their habits to the Ianthina, like which they also 

 bear a vesicular appendage on the foot. The shells may be 

 distinguished from those of Ianthina by their form being 

 more elongated, by their more elevated spire, and oblique 

 columella, and by the outer lip being straight and not 

 notched ; the lines of growth, moreover, are straight, and 

 the colour is dirty white under a brownish epidermis. 



Species of Recluzia. 

 Jehennei, Petit. Rollandiana, Petit. 



